A list of storm-protection work funded by $100M

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resilience Grant Program will fund a variety of projects worth more than $100 million in 11 states to protect communities at risk from future big storms like the October 2012 event that pummeled the East Coast.

Create a regional framework for coastal resilience for 10 municipalities along the central coast of Connecticut. The municipalities will integrate green infrastructure principles, prioritize projects, and contribute to a Regional Coastal Resiliency Plan.

Grant Award: $700,000

Matching Funds: None

Total Project Funds: $700,000

Develop a flood and storm resiliency management plan for Pawcatuck River Watershed and 11 communities in southern Rhode Island and Connecticut. Project will aid in the watershed's resiliency enhancement, restore habitat, and protect local communities.

Grant Award: $720,000

Matching Funds: $197,869

Total Project Funds: $917,869

DELAWARE

Implement a system-wide approach to evaluate, design, and construct restoration and resiliency strategies along the central Delaware Bay shore. Project will enhance community and ecosystem resiliency by generating a restoration plan and restoring the beach and dune system.

Grant Award: $4,500,000

Matching Funds: $1,687,683

Total Project Funds: $6,187,683

Develop a three dimensional wetland model for the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Project will provide current wetland assessments, help evaluate restoration strategies, and predict the long-term sustainability of the marsh.

Grant Award: $4,500,000

Matching Funds: $1,687,683

Total Project Funds: $6,187,683

Design and construct restoration strategies for Delaware Bay's wetlands and beaches. Project will enhance community and ecosystem resiliency by generating a restoration plan, replacing critical water control structures, and restoring the beach and dune system.

Grant Award: $2,000,000

Matching Funds: $2,910,270

Total Project Funds $4,910,270

MASSACHUSETTS

Restore and enhance Great Marsh's wetlands and dunes. Local municipalities' vulnerability will be reduced through restoration projects, assessments, and coastal resiliency plans.

Map, analyze, and assess Maryland's green infrastructure to enhance the Chesapeake Bay shoreline in Maryland. Project will provide resilience-enhancing opportunities and best practices for local government implementation.

Grant Award: $640,000

Matching Funds: $222,730

Total Project Funds: $862,730

Remove a Patapsco River fish barrier in the Patapsco Valley State Park Avalon area. Project will open 52.5 miles of stream, provide additional spawning habitat, and strengthen community resiliency.

Grant Award: $2,480,000

Matching Funds: $5,287,024

Total Project Funds: $7,767,024

Create, restore, and improve North Beach's shoreline in Calvert County, Maryland. Project will prevent further erosion to North Beach's 105-acre salt marsh, protect the surrounding communities, and prevent damage to MD Route 261, an emergency vehicle route.

Grant Award: $540,000

Matching Funds: $76,000

Total Project Funds: $616,000

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Remove Bellamy River's two fish barriers in Dover, New Hampshire. Project will restore 11 river miles, re-introduce a fish passage, reduce flooding, and improve water quality and safety.

Grant Award: $550,000

Matching Funds: $168,075

Total Project Funds: $718,075

NEW JERSEY

Restore hydrology and prevent erosion in the Pine Barrens in Burlington County and Ocean County, New Jersey. Project will improve stream and wetland resiliency, while protecting important habitat.

Grant Award: $280,000

Matching Funds: $106,340

Total Project Funds: $386,340

Increase Seven Mile Island's beach resiliency in Cape May County, New Jersey. Project will improve habitat, protect communities, and contribute to a long term resiliency strategy.

Grant Award: $1,280,000

Matching Funds: $53,424

Total Project Funds: $1,333,424

Develop, design, and deliver green infrastructure techniques that add ecological value and enhance community resiliency to New Jersey coastal communities.

Create and improve Liberty State Park's 40 acres of salt marsh and 100 acres of upland habitat in Jersey City, New Jersey. Project will improve ecosystem resiliency and create a new publicly accessible area within the park.

Grant Award: $250,000

Matching Funds: $146,968

Total Project Funds: $396,968

Restore 50 acres of Delaware Bay's wetlands and six miles of beach in Cape May and Cumberland Counties, New Jersey. Project will improve horseshoe crab spawning, provide shorebird stopover area, and improve ecological and economic community resilience.

Grant Award: $4,750,000

Matching Funds: $854,468

Total Project Funds: $5,604,468

Strengthen Marshes Creek and the local community in Linden, New Jersey. Project will provide community protection while strengthening ecosystem resiliency from floods and runoff impacts.

Replenish and restore Little Egg Harbor's marshes and wetlands in New Jersey. Project will create a stronger shoreline buffer, provide healthier habitat, and open seven miles of stream.

Grant Award: $2,130,000

Matching Funds: $91,500

Total Project Funds: $2,221,500

Perform 54 municipality assessments and impervious cover reduction action plans for the Raritan River Basin in New Jersey. Project will create a municipality strategy guide with recommendations, and implement projects that capture over 68 million gallons of storm water annually.

Grant Award: $820,000

Matching Funds: $353,628

Total Project Funds: $1,173,628

NEW YORK

Develop a self-sustaining oyster population in Jamaica Bay, New York. Project will improve water quality and increase oyster larvae recruitment.

Grant Award: $1,000,000

Matching Funds: $375,000

Total Project Funds: $1,375,000

Restore ecosystem function and habitat for the Bronx River in New York City. Project will re-naturalize the shoreline, restore habitat function, and remove contaminated soil.

Replace three flood-prone culverts in the Ausable Watershed in northern New York. Project will restore fish passage for 25 miles, mitigate flooding, and reduce community costs.

Grant Award: $620,000

Matching Funds: $188,454

Total Project Funds: $808,454

Strengthen Coney Island's resiliency through installation of 14 green streets in New York City, New York. Project will mitigate flooding, filter over 2 million gallons of stormwater runoff, and serve as a model to other communities.

Grant Award: $990,000

Matching Funds: $333,333

Total Project Funds: $1,323,333

Restore Tibbetts Brook as a tributary to the Harlem River. Project will reduce over 88 million gallons of stormwater runoff and decrease sewer overflow events by 15% annually.

Restore over 250 acres of wetlands and riparian habitat in the Brandywine River watershed in Pennsylvania. Project will improve community flood resiliency, reconnect habitats, and reduce runoff.

Grant Award: $3,030,000

Matching Funds: $500,000

Total Project Funds: $3,530,000

Develop a green infrastructure plan and implement a demonstration project in Chester City, Pennsylvania. Project will incorporate green infrastructure policies, focus on citizen empowerment, and serve as a model to neighboring cities.

Grant Award: $290,000

Matching Funds: $49,777

Total Project Funds: $339,777

RHODE ISLAND

Restore 30 acres of salt marsh and create two additional marsh restoration designs in Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge in south Rhode Island. Project will strengthen the marsh's resiliency and serve as a model to similar restoration projects throughout the state.

Incorporate green infrastructure into community policies in Newport, Warwick, and North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Project will increase resiliency, build local decision-maker capacity, and serve as a replicable model for neighboring states.

Grant Award: $400,000

Matching Funds: None

Total Project Funds: $400,000

Create a natural resource resiliency assessment and action plan for 2,064 acres in Charleston and County of Washington, Rhode Island. Project will identify mitigation options that will strengthen watershed resiliency and protect nearby communities.

Grant Award: $180,000

Matching Funds: $60,206

Total Project Funds: $240,206

Develop monitoring network, coastal maps, and best engineering practices for southern shore of Rhode Island. Project will generate best practices and policies, test modeling tools, and is the first step to developing a statewide coastal resiliency program.

Grant Award: $870,000

Matching Funds: $358,622

Total Project Funds: $1,228,622

Develop a flood and storm resiliency management plan for Pawcatuck River Watershed and 11 communities in southern Rhode Island and Connecticut. Project will aid in the watershed's resiliency enhancement, restore habitat, and protect local communities.

Implement eight shoreline restoration projects and develop a green infrastructure plan and framework for the Lafayette River watershed in Norfolk, Virginia. Project will strengthen the watershed's resiliency, engage 40 veterans in a green infrastructure training course, and involve 160 high school students in hands-on projects.

Grant Award: $4,640,000

Matching Funds: $257,343

Total Project Funds: $4,897,343

Develop coastal resiliency regional models that enhance over 5,700 acres of wetlands and forests in the Southern Watersheds Area of Virginia. Project will strengthen coastal resiliency and serve as an adaptation resource for community leaders and decision makers.

Grant Award: $4,000,000

Matching Funds: $4,465,843

Total Project Funds: $8,465,843

Improve and quantify wetlands' potential to reduce storm surge impacts along the Chesapeake Bay shoreline within four Virginia nature preserves. Project will provide decision makers with information that can influence future management policies.

Grant Award: $440,000

Matching Funds: $111,969

Total Project Funds: $551,969

REGIONAL PROJECTS

Develop a data integration platform for existing storm-related resources that will especially benefit states affected by Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access and intuitive data interpretation for all users including decision makers.

Grant Award: $520,000

Matching Funds: $133,303

Total Project Funds: $653,303

Evaluate the Northeast's coastal impoundment vulnerability and resilience with national parks, refuges, and state lands of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia. Coastal impoundments are areas of upland or wetland habitats where low level dikes have been constructed to restrict, retain, or exclude water over a selected area and are found along the northeastern coast of the U.S. Project will reduce risk to nearby communities and identify restoration efforts that will strengthen impoundment resiliency.